1st Edition

The Fatimids and Egypt

By Michael Brett Copyright 2019
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

This Variorum volume is a collection of articles dealing with Egypt under the Fatimids, originally published in diverse journals and books between 1984 and 2013. The Fatimids came to power in North Africa in 910 CE, and ruled in Egypt from 969 to 1171 CE. As Imams and Caliphs, they claimed authority for the faith and the government of the Muslim world. In Egypt and Syria, they both reigned and... Read more

Introduction



 



THE HISTORY OF EGYPT



I Writing the History of Egypt for the New Cambridge History of Islam



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, V, Peeters, Leuven, 2007, pp. 1-13.



 



THE POPULATION OF EGYPT



II The Way of the Peasant



Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 47 (1984), pp. 44-56



III Population and Conversion to Islam in Egypt in the Mediaeval Period



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, IV, Peeters, Leuven, 2005, pp. 1-32.



 



THE MEN OF THE PEN



IV The Execution of Ibn Badūs



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VII, Peeters, Leuven, 2013, pp. 21-9



V The Execution of al-Yāzūrī



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, II, Peeters, Leuven, 1998, pp. 15-27



 





FATIMID DIPLOMACY



VI Translation



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VII, Peeters, Leuven, 2013, pp. 31-7



VII The Diplomacy of Empire: Fatimids and Zirids, 990-1062



Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 78 (2015), pp. 149-59



VIII The Ifrīqiyan Sijill of al-Mustanṣir, 445/1053-4



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, VI, Peeters, Leuven, 2010, pp. 9-16



IX The Poetry of Disaster. The Tragedy of Qayrawān, 1052-1057



K. D’Hulster and J. Van Steenbergen, eds., Continuity and Change in the Realms of Islam. Studies in honour of Professor Urbain Vermeulen, Peeters, Leuven, 2008, pp. 77-89



 



THE FATIMID RENASCENCE



X Badr al-Jamālī and the Fatimid Renascence



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, IV, Peeters, Leuven, 2005, pp. 61-78



XI Al-Karāza al-Marqusīya. The Coptic Church in the Fatimid Empire



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, IV, Peeters, Leuven, 2005, pp. 33-60



XII The Origins of the Mamluk Military System in the Fatimid Period



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, I, Peeters, Leuven, 1995, pp. 39-52



 



THE FATIMIDS AND THE CRUSADES



XIII The Muslim Response to the First Crusade



S.B. Edgington and L. Garcia-Guijarro, eds., Jerusalem the Golden. The Origins and Impact of the Furst Crusade, Brepols, Turnhout, 2014, pp. 219-34



XIV The Battles of Ramla (1099-1105)



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, I, Peeters, Leuven, 1995, pp. 17-37



XV The Fatimids and the Counter-Crusade, 1099-1171



Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras, V, Peeters, Leuven, 2007, pp. 15-25





 



Index

Biography

Dr Michael Brett is Emeritus Reader in the History of North Africa at SOAS, London.